[Unison-hackers] Re: [unison-users] Quick poll: Who uses backup / backups?

Benjamin Pierce bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu
Mon Jun 6 13:07:47 EDT 2005


> So what are you proposing?

Removing the centralized one (which is called backup).

    - B

> 
> On 6/6/05, Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > > We're in the middle of some reimplementation work on the merge
> > > > functionality, and as part of this we're considering simplifying and
> > > > rationalizing the backup functionality.
> > > > At the moment, Unison provides two different preferences for 
> > controlling
> > > > backups: "backup", which keeps backup copies in the same directory as 
> > the
> > > > current version of the file, and "backups", which maintains a 
> > centralized
> > > > tree of backup files under the .unison directory.
> > >
> > > from my memory (and a quick look into the manual confirms it) it is 
> > exactly
> > > the opposite:
> > > backup/backupnot/backupdir control the centralised backup
> > 
> > You're right: what I said was exactly backwards.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > - Benjamin
> > 
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